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Press Release: Microsoft Launches New AI for Good Program, AI for Health, to Accelerate Global Health Initiatives
The talent and resources required to equip health researchers with tools to deploy AI and data science is unevenly distributed. Less than 5% of the world's AI professionals today work in health and nonprofit organizations. It is crucial to provide these mission-driven researchers with the tools they need to accelerate and expand their work.
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Yale-India Business Accelerator to Promote Innovative Health Solutions
The selected companies will each receive $70,000 in seed capital and mentorship from Yale faculty and alumni, and will benefit from a network of Indian industry experts and structured sessions to help startups evolve into a sustainable and scalable business model, refine their market strategy, and build a sustainable company.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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- South Asia
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China Leads World in Digital Health Adoption, Philips Survey Finds
The Chinese healthcare sector's embrace of self-monitoring has contributed to the country becoming the biggest wearables market. Similar trends in other countries Philips classes as digital forerunners, such as India and Saudi Arabia, are supporting above-average growth.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: The Global Digital Health Index Launches Inaugural State of Digital Health Report
The report presents data collected from the 22 countries across 6 regions that participate in the Index, analyzes regional trends, and sets benchmarks for countries to consider when charting future growth. It also contextualizes the findings in relation to digital health milestones and other global trend analyses.
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African e-health startups secure $1.5m Skoll Foundation grants
African e-health startups mPedigree and mPharma are among the five organisations to have been awarded US$1.5 million in grant funding after winning the 2019 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Yale University to fund sustainable health startup initiative in India
"As the first signature programme of the Yale Institute for Global Health, we are very excited to launch new and cost-effective solutions that will have a significant impact on the health of communities in India, the US and around the world," Sten Vermund, Dean, Yale School of Public Health, said.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Press release: Social Alpha and Tata Trusts-PATH Impact Lab announce the winning innovations of the ‘Social Alpha Quest for Healthcare Innovations’
Social Alpha Quest for Healthcare Innovations program is an intensive 12 - 15 months program where the cohort will receive comprehensive support from Social Alpha and Tata Trusts–PATH Impact Lab to scale their innovations to the next stage of product development.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Inspiration, Ideation and Implementation: How Design Thinking Can Build Robust and Sustainable mHealth Ventures
Design thinking can help mHealth ventures develop their value propositions and potential impacts, meet customer needs, and shape business models that stand the test of time. In the final post in his series on making mHealth businesses sustainable, Khanjan Mehta provides a structured framework that helps these enterprises determine their viability, particularly in the early conceptualization phase.
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